Quotes About Impact

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.

No sé qué decir de él sino que me ha conmovido del modo en que uno desea que lo conmueva cada libro que empieza a leer. Quiero decir que, de algún modo que casi no sabría describir, me ha transformado.

But in the end, it isn't up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.

I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he begins a book.

If a leader merely carried out what historical forces made inevitable, it is not the person that mattered, it is the moment in time

and as soon as i die i hope everyone who loved me learns the meaning of my death which is a simple lesson don't do what you do very well very well and enjoy it it scares white folk and makes black ones truly mad

Of the many foundations upon which humans rest, words are probably the most solid.

The Los Angeles earthquake of October 1, 1987, measured 5.9 on the Richter scale. It killed eight people, injured scores more, and left 2,200 people homeless and more than 10,000 buildings badly damaged. However, Nikki Sixx was by far the most infamous Los Angeleno to react to the quake by running out of his house butt-haked and waving a crack pipe.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

Bu ülkede ÅŸu anda alkol tüketimine kar?? sert ve hatta anayasaya ayk?r? önlemler al?n?yor ve fakat küçük yaÅŸlarda bile özgürce kullan?lan kahve,çay,tütün,sak?z ve diÄŸer uyar?c?lar - ölenlerin say?s?na bakarsak - vücuda çok daha zararl?.

And I am glad, because although no one else in the world remembers him now, he will live inside me as long as I live. We shall die together. This grandfather was the first to make me wish not to die - so that the dead within me should not die. Since then, many departed dead ones have sunk, not into the grave, but into my memory, and I know now that as long as I live they shall live too.

La bestia aprovechó para morderle el antebrazo. El mordisco no le rasgó la piel, pero le ocasionó un desagradable moretón púrpura que le duró varios días, momento en el que decidió bautizarla. Le puso Bitch, como les decían en su lengua a las putas.

To hold a human soul in the palm of your hand like a pebble. To feel somebody slip away, yet by your actions to bring her back! Not even a king had such power. Selected.

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

the countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck.

It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is taking place here and elsewhere in the country and around the world, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Global warming has an abstract feel. Who understands the difference between 1.5ºC and 2ºC (2.7ºF and 3.6ºF respectively)—in contrast to having food to put on the table for your children tomorrow?

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

We will also learn that our own actions, or passive acquiescence, contribute quite substantially to misery and oppression, and perhaps eventual global destruction.

One jet plane means this many fewer schools and hospitals.